Amanda Knox

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I see there is another Amanda Knox series out on Hulu/Disney. I've always followed the case closely. But I have mixed feelings. At first I thought Amanda was involved in the murder but as time has gone on, there isn't a shred of proof (from a DNA pov) against her. But should she continue to make money from the case? I feel deeply sorry for Meredith's family. As her sister Stephanie said, Meredith is the 'forgotten victim' in this. I understand she did spend 4 years behind bars and wants to be vindicated - and she does help other innocent victims who have been jailed - but I feel it's too much now and that Meredith is being lost in it all. What do you think?

If you were facing a life sentence for something you didn't do, the victim might not be your first thought either. I don't think any of us can say what would be a "normal" response in that situation.

Knox has to take some responsibility for how this played out. Her behaviour during the initial investigations was really bizarre, and police could hardly be blamed for treating her as a suspect at that time.

She had no involvement. She was acquitted because there wasn’t a single shred of evidence that she was involved. She was subject to a miscarriage of justice, that has been widely acknowledged.

Why should anyone take responsibility for being found guilty of a crime that they didn’t commit? Trials are supposed to based on evidence, not behaviour after the event.

Part of the problem was her implicating Patrick Lumumba, who actually had an alibi - however, the defamation case against Amanda was heard by the same jury as for the murder case, correct me if I'm wrong.
So, it didn't look good that she was found to have lied. It all went against her.

She said that The police harassed her into naming patrick lumumba..

She called herself that.

It was her nickname from playing soccer as a child.

I follow her on X. She's an amazingly intelligent and articulate woman who got caught up in a strange, awful set of circumstances when very young and naive.

She also speaks about deliberately presenting herself as dowdily as possible for years as she was so traumatised by how sexualised she was at the time.

I don’t really understand Amanda’s rationale in continuing to make programme after programme, book after book, interview upon interview about this incident. I think you would struggle to find anyone in the western world now unversed in what happened to her given the level of coverage and her own prolific media activity around the case. I think she can do as she pleases with her own story, but I am a little sick to death of hearing it - and I find her quite an attention seeking figure in general. She does do work on raising consciousness about miscarriage of justice in general and false convictions, but it seems her and her story need to be at the centre of everything. I do feel for Meredith’s family but I don’t think Amanda is duty bound to not speak about her life because it might upset them. I’m sure years in prison for something she didn’t do was pretty difficult. I don’t believe she killed Meredith but she is quite annoying and we don’t need another version of her story imo.

Thank you.

She was 20, in a foreign country and her housemate had been murdered. I think her behaviour was immature and self absorbed, but she didn’t kill Meredith.

Yes but she was pressured into that and hit by the police, a fact the police were well aware of when they then put that evidence to the court.

Thank you.

Money? She basically lost her chance of a normal life/career. She got a tiny amount of compensation for spending 4 years behind bars for a crime she didn’t commit. Her parents spent everything they had trying to defend her. Maybe she needs the money?

Yes, Meredith's death was an 'awful set of circumstances'. I'm sure Meredith's death was traumatising for her family too. Does Amanda talk much about memories of Meredith on X?

Memories of her? She only knew her for a few weeks and they weren’t friends. She probably didn’t have many memories of her bar saying hello in the communal kitchen.

Presumably you knew her parents though and you weren’t falsely accused of her murder at the same time?

But don't you see what you did there? Another poster who wasn't there and didn't confirm their source said something about straddling and you repeated it like it was confirmed. Beautifully demonstrating on a small level what happened to amanda knox on a much larger scale.

She has said it.

I’ve listened to many of her interviews. She talks every time about Meredith and her pain at losing her.

But she’s never interviewed because she’s a grieving friend - she’s telling her remarkable story of injustice, so of course the focus is on her.

She didn’t kill Meredith so what do you want from Amanda Knox - blood?

100%

If you want a grim read and a peek into how the Italian justice system views women, google the jeans rape law in Italy

Apparently they weren't friends according to another poster and she only knew her to say hello in the communal kitchen? So no 'memories'

Again you have no idea how you’d act.

Personally I’d hope they’d examine forensic evidence - such as the fact there was NO DNA of the accused at the very messy untied crime scene - rather than guessing the behaviour of a 20yo in extreme shock. I prefer efficient policing.

🙄 I don’t know exactly how many interactions they had. My point was that they’d only known each other for 6 weeks… they weren’t lifelong best friends. There’s only so much you can talk about your memories of someone you’ve only known for 6 weeks, so to expect her to be dedicating a lot of time doing so, all of these years on, is maybe a tad unrealistic.

I know. So what.

She called herself that PRIOR to going to Italy. The media didn’t have to peddle the nickname when she was an accused murderer. It’s insensitive AF. Or should we all behave like any minute we are gonna be falsely accused of murder and only put bland things on social media.

There’s no probably about it, he did do that

And 17 years later people will come onto forums that are meant to be about women, and talk endlessly about the woman who maybe did cartwheels and kissed her BF and say fuck all abut the profiles sex offender convicted of murder.

What sad times we live in.